Intel also announces its eighth generation of intel core processors

Intel today announced that its new family of Intel Core 8th Gen desktop processors will be available for purchase starting October 5, 2017. This new family of desktop processors is designed for gamers, content creators, and overclockers who require a superior performance.

8th Generation Intel Core Announced

This new family features the first 6-core Intel Core i5 desktop processor and the first 4-core Intel Core i3 desktop processor. The family offers a wide range of consumer performance options with unlocked “K” processors offering the best performance and up to 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes for system expansion in graphics, storage and I / O. These processors are compatible with newer Intel Z370 chipset motherboards.

Intel Core i7-8700K goes through Cinebench R15

The top-of-the-range model of this new family is the Intel Core i7-8700K, the best desktop mainstream platform processor designed by Intel. It is able to obtain the maximum frequency of 4.7 GHz operating with a single core thanks to Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, thus becoming a tremendously powerful processor for both single and multi-threaded applications.

Thanks to its 6 cores and 12 processing threads it offers the best performance both in video games and in very demanding tasks such as creating content for virtual reality. When editing video in 4K and 360º resolution it is 32% faster than the previous generation and 65% faster than the processors of three years ago. Gamers will also delight in these new processors that offer up to 25 percent more frames per second in popular and demanding games like Gears of War 4.

Source: techpowerup